AP Photo/HO-Merie W. WallaceThe Academy Awards have landed Oscars for some questionable winners including "My heart will go on," by Celine Dion from the movie "Titanic." In a file photo, the Titanic sinks as lifeboats are rowed away in this scene from the epic film.

Yes, when it comes to the Oscars, the song remains so lame – mostly because voters took forever to recognize rock (let alone soul and rap) and continue to prefer drippy ballads. Still, these picks were really out of tune.

“Sweet Leilani,” from “Waikiki Wedding,” 1937. Among the losers that year – the elegantly wistful “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” the Gershwin classic from “Shall We Dance.” Talk about tone deaf.

“Swinging on a Star,” from “Going My Way,” 1944. A trifle. And it still came out on top in an expanded list of 12 nominees, including “I’ll Walk Alone,” “Long Ago and Far Away” and “The Trolley Song.”

“Chim, Chim Cher-ee,” from “Mary Poppins,” 1964. Cute. But how about “My Kind of Town” from “Robin and the Seven Hoods”? And why did the only nod for “A Hard Day’s Night” go to George Martin for best scoring?

“Talk to the Animals,” from “Dr. Doolittle,” 1967. Another gimmicky bit of kiddie fare – and it beat out Bacharach/David’s great “The Look of Love,” from the original “Casino Royale,” the slinkiest James Bond tune ever.

“We May Never Love Like This Again,” from “The Towering Inferno,” 1974. In the (ugh) tradition of “The Morning After” from “The Poseidon Adventure.” Even the “Blazing Saddles” theme was a better nominee.

“You Light Up My Life,” from “You Light Up My Life,” 1977. More inescapable Top-40 sludge. Better to honor “Nobody Does It Better,” from “The Spy Who Loved Me,” which at least had a great Carly Simon vocal.

“My Heart Will Go On,” from “Titanic,” 1997. And on, and on, and on. It dovetailed perfectly with voters’ dull tastes, but a better, bolder choice would have been Elliott Smith’s “Miss Misery,” from “Good Will Hunting.”

“You’ll Be in My Heart,” from “Tarzan,” 1999. Another Phil Collins fill-in-the-notes job for Disney that didn’t come close to matching the bittersweet artistry of Aimee Mann’s “Save Me,” from “Magnolia.”

“I Need to Wake Up,” from “An Inconvenient Truth,” 2006. A p.c. vote for Melissa Etheridge’s call-to-green, and a painful snub to no less than three better nominees from “Dreamgirls,” including the excellent “Listen.”

“Jai Ho,” from “Slumdog Millionaire,” 2008. A big burst of Bollywood energy, and fine for what it was. But how was it that “Slumdog” got two musical nods and Bruce Springsteen’s “The Wrestler” wasn’t nominated?